Academic Articles & Research Papers

Interpretable machine learning for predicting compression index of clays using SHAP and gradient boosting models

Abstract This study introduces a novel, interpretable machine learning framework for predicting the compression index (Cc) of clay soils by integrating three advanced gradient boosting algorithms—XGBoost, CatBoost, and LightGBM—with SHapley...

Improving Intrusion Detection Model Prediction by Threshold Adaptation

Network traffic exhibits a high level of variability over short periods of time. This variability impacts negatively on the accuracy of anomaly-based network intrusion detection systems (IDS) that are built using predictive models in a batc...

A review of machine learning in obesity

Rich sources of obesity-related data arising from sensors, smartphone apps, electronic medical health records and insurance data can bring new insights for understanding, preventing and treating obesity. For such large datasets, machine lea...

Machine Learning Approaches for Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry

Machine learning approaches for clinical psychology and psychiatry explicitly focus on learning statistical functions from multidimensional data sets to make generalizable predictions about individuals. The goal of this review is to provide...

Development and web-based implementation of a machine learning model for predicting one-year adverse outcomes in acute ischaemic stroke

BackgroundThis study aimed to develop an interpretable and clinically applicable machine learning prediction model to assess the risk of adverse outcomes within one year following acute ischaemic stroke, and to establish a corresponding web...

Directional Gaussian Mixture Models of the Gut Microbiome Elucidate Microbial Spatial Structure

ABSTRACT The gut microbiome is spatially heterogeneous, with environmental niches contributing to the distribution and composition of microbial populations. A recently developed mapping technology, MaPS-seq, aims to characterize the spatial...

A Numerical-Based Attention Method for Stock Market Prediction With Dual Information

Stock market prediction is of great importance for financial analysis. Traditionally, many studies only use the news or numerical data for the stock market prediction. In the recent years, in order to explore their complementary, some studi...

Development of a Transfer Learning Technique for Rapid Adaptation of Thermal Compensation Models to Long-Term Machine Thermal Behavior Changes

Structural aging and environmental changes associated with long-term operation can substantially modify the thermal behavior of machine tools, diminishing the accuracy of existing thermal compensation models. Traditional neural network appr...

TRIST: TREE RECOGNITION INTELLIGENT SYSTEM

Plant recognition represents a challenging computer vision problem due to the great variations of shape and texture among plant organs, within the same species. This paper proposes a light-weight, but reasonably deep Convolutional Neural Ne...

Quantifying the incremental value of deep learning: Application to lung nodule detection.

We present a case study for implementing a machine learning algorithm with an incremental value framework in the domain of lung cancer research. Machine learning methods have often been shown to be competitive with prediction models in some...

Machine Learning in Earthquake Seismology

Machine learning (ML) is a collection of methods used to develop understanding and predictive capability by learning relationships embedded in data. ML methods are becoming the dominant approaches for many tasks in seismology. ML and data m...

Degeneracy in neuronal bifurcation landscapes: Equivalent bifurcation sequences across distinct parameter sets.

Design, framework and benchmark of safety monitors for black-box classifiers

Abstract The last decade has seen a surging opportunity for developing autonomous systems (e.g., fully autonomous driving, computer-guided robotic surgery, mobile robots for inspections and surveillance, and manufacturing robots) to relieve...

A metaheuristic with a neural surrogate function for Word Sense Disambiguation

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is one of the earliest problems in natural language processing which aims to determine the correct sense of words in context. The semantic information provided by WSD systems is highly beneficial to many task...

AN IMPROVED GRU BASED ON RECURRENT ATTENTION UNIT AND SELF- ATTENTION TECHNIQUE FOR TEXT SENTIMENT ANALYSIS

In text sentiment analysis, a crucial challenge is that conventional word vectors fail to capture lexical ambiguity. The Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), an advanced variant of RNN, is extensively utilized in natural language processing tasks su...

MVPA-Light: A Classification and Regression Toolbox for Multi-Dimensional Data

MVPA-Light is a MATLAB toolbox for multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA). It provides native implementations of a range of classifiers and regression models, using modern optimization algorithms. High-level functions allow for the multivaria...

Applications of Machine Learning in Cancer Prediction and Prognosis

Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that employs a variety of statistical, probabilistic and optimization techniques that allows computers to "learn" from past examples and to detect hard-to-discern patterns from large, ...

Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation

Inexpensive and accessible sensors are accelerating data acquisition in animal ecology. These technologies hold great potential for large-scale ecological understanding, but are limited by current processing approaches which inefficiently d...

A Topical Review of Graph Embedding in Graph Neural Networks

Graph embeddings map graph-structured data into vector spaces for machine learning tasks. In Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), these embeddings are computed through message passing and support tasks such as node classification, link prediction ...

Feature-driven static analysis for learning-based android malware detection: A review

The extensive embrace of Android has amplified malware risks, resulting in a need for better detection methods. This article investigates the area of static analysis, which analyses applications without execution by examining code and manif...